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• hell out: [UNIX] n. To spawn an interactive subshell from within a program (e.
  g., a mailer or editor). "Bang foo runs foo in a subshell, while bang alone shells out....
• bang: 1. n. Common spoken name for `!' (ASCII 0100001), especially when used in pronouncing a {bang path} in spoken hackish.
  In {elder days} this was considered a CMUish usage, with MIT and Stanford hackers preferring {excl} or {shriek}...
• bang 1. n. Common spoken name for ! (ASCII 0100001), especially when used in pronouncing a bang path in spoken hackish.
  In elder days this was considered a CMUish usage, with MIT and Stanford hackers preferring excl or shriek...
• chain 1. vi. [orig. from BASIC's CHAIN statement] To hand off execution to a child or successor without going through the OS command interpreter that invoked it.
  The state of the parent program is lost and there is no returning to it....
• hebang /sh*-bang/ n. The character sequence "#!
  that frequently begins executable shell scripts under Unix....
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• chain: 1. [orig. from BASIC's `CHAIN' statement] vi.
  To hand off execution to a child or successor without going through the {OS} command interpreter that invoked it....
• box: n. 1. A computer; esp. in the construction `foo box' where foo is some functional qualifier, like `graphics', or the name of an OS (thus, `UNIX box', `MS-DOS box', etc.
  ) "We preprocess the data on UNIX boxes before handing it up to the mainframe....
• A is for awk, which runs like a snail, and B is for biff, which reads all your mail.
  C is for cc, as hackers recall, while D is for dd, the command that does all....